For anyone who didn’t see it, or who saw it and said, What the heck was that? here is the Rangers commercial that ran during the Super Bowl. It’s Jeff Banister toasting his team with Champagne, interspersed with shots of Beltre, Odor, Hamels (twice) and Fielder, saying: “I told you in […]
The football season has mercifully come to an end and this is the time when we reset to 000 and start the journey toward baseball, and the Rangers defending their American League West crown. Below is something I posted the day I took over this site and from time to […]
This is the time of the year when the clock seems to slow down and the days are twice as long in anticipation. While we wait, here is reminder of the greatness of the game. Here is a recap of the game in which Delino DeShields hit his first major league home […]
Rookie week continues. Here is the one game that singlehandly turned the season around. When Delino DeShields established himself as a viable alternative to Leonys Martin. *** OF COURSE THAT HAPPENED. This is why baseball is the greatest sport in the world. Football, this wouldn’t happen. The Indianas of the […]
Early June was truly a remarkable week for Rangers rookies. Two days after Joey Gallo’s triumphant debut, Chi Chi Gonzalez showed flashes of what he might possibly be some day. Or, at least, what we can all hope. He pitched a complete game shutout in just his second major league […]
This one is about 2015 Rangers rookie left fielder Ryan Strausborger. Strausborger got an unexpected taste of major league living by default in 2015. It happened because the first dozen or so candidates the Rangers ran out there ran into the proverbial wall. The Rangers first choice Ryan Rua went […]
The lifeblood of any organization is the constant stream of rookies that seep into its major league roster from year to year. Ten rookies debuted with the Rangers in 2015. All in all, it was a pretty promising group: Delino DeShields Joey Gallo Hanser Alberto Ryan Strausborger Logan Verrett Keone […]
This is difficult to write. Scary has passed away. Perhaps it’s not totally surprising since he has been in such bad health for some time now. He has been hospitalized on a number of occasions recently, disappearing for small stretches from the RR3 radar screen, including on Saturday and Sunday. And […]
MLB.com has posted its Top 100 prospects list for 2016. Five Rangers made the list. Joey Gallo, 9. Lewis Brinson, 16. Nomar Mazara, 18. Dillon Tate, 36. Luis Ortiz, 73. It’s interesting to go to their archive section and look at past prospect lists. They go back to only 2011, so many […]
Great pitching wins championships. The Rangers won the AL West with the worst ERA in the division and third worst in the league, better than only Boston and Detroit. Texas pitching gave up the most runs, the most earned runs, and issued the most walks in the entire American League, […]